Fiction

• The New Animals by Pip Adam

Illustrated non-fiction

• Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins

Poetry

• Night Horse by Elizabeth Smither

General non-fiction 

• Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel

Best first book for fiction

• Baby by Annaleese Jochems

Best first book for poetry

• Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner
  

Best first book for illustrated non-fiction

• Caves: Exploring New Zealand’s Subterranean Wilderness
  by Marcus Thomas and Neil Silverwood

Best first book for general non-fiction

• Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel